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Rowan Grove Integrative Holistic Support My name is Lori M. Vellutini. I offer remote/video sessions, as well as travel sessions where I come to your location.

As a Certified End-of-Life Doula, Usui Reiki Master Teacher, and Shamanic Therapist, I offer comprehensive services to support you through all stages of your unique life journey ~consultations, private appointments, private and group classes, and retreats Welcome to Rowan Grove Integrative Holistic Support, where you will find a variety of services individually tailored to assist you during all stages of your unique Life's Journey. I am a Certified End of Life Doula, Shamanic Therapist, Usui Reiki Master/Teacher, and Personal Development Coach specializing in Trauma Recovery and Grief/Bereavement Support. In addition, I utilize my 10 years of experience as an Emergency/Critical Care Veterinary Technician to provide specialized In-Home Care and Support for Special Needs/Hospice Animals. I work with Individuals, Couples, and Groups, both in-person and remotely. I also utilize my advanced instruction in Animal Reiki/Animal Communication to provide assistance to our beloved nonhuman companions as well. If you have any questions about any of my services or classes, or would like to schedule a free 30 minute phone consultation, you may contact me via text, email, or PM.

"THE DIAGNOSIS CHANGED THE MAP, IT DID NOT ERASE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.A diagnosis has a way of taking over the calendar...
10/14/2026

"THE DIAGNOSIS CHANGED THE MAP, IT DID NOT ERASE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.

A diagnosis has a way of taking over the calendar.

Appointments. Medications. Test results. Conversations you never expected to have. Before long, it can feel like every plan has to pass through the diagnosis first.

But your life is still bigger than what is happening to your body.

You can make dinner plans. Get annoyed in traffic. Laugh at something stupid. Care about work. Want a trip, a haircut, a new lamp, or absolutely nothing profound at all.

Illness may change the route.

It does not become the whole destination."
- Brilliant Star Transitions

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10/14/2026

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"Kaiji Tomita, student of Mikao Usui, taught that reiki's source lies in the heart and mind, not the hands. Cultivate th...
10/14/2026

"Kaiji Tomita, student of Mikao Usui, taught that reiki's source lies in the heart and mind, not the hands. Cultivate the person first; the healing follows. The art is benevolent before it is effective."
- Mark Straubel

"There is a great deal of wisdom in the now-familiar phrase that “the body keeps the score.” Our bodies carry our histor...
10/14/2026

"There is a great deal of wisdom in the now-familiar phrase that “the body keeps the score.”

Our bodies carry our histories. They remember what overwhelmed us, what frightened us, what brought pleasure, what required protection. Long before the conceptual mind has figured out what is happening, the body may already be responding—with contraction or expansion, trembling or warmth, an impulse to move toward or pull away.

Learning to listen to these communications, to cultivate a kind of somatic sensitivity, has been an important part of my own life and work for many years.

But the body is not an oracle. Because some of the score was written a very long time ago.

A nervous system shaped in an environment where intimacy carried danger may register closeness as threat. Someone who learned that belonging required self-abandonment may feel intense activation while setting a healthy boundary. What feels expansive and alive may be a movement toward something deeply true—or toward something exquisitely familiar.

None of this means the body is wrong. The contraction is real, the fear is real, the trembling is real. But what the body is responding to may not belong entirely to the present moment. And perhaps this is where somatic sensitivity begins to deepen into somatic discernment.

Listening to the body is not the same as obeying it. Rather than immediately asking, What is my body telling me to do?, we might become curious about another question: What is happening in my body as I am here?

We may not know immediately whether the fear is signaling danger or vulnerability, whether the contraction is asking us to leave or marking a threshold that was once unsafe to cross. And perhaps that not-knowing is part of the practice.

The body is not standing outside our history, offering pure instructions about the life we should live. The body is inside the history.

This is exactly why its communications deserve our attention—not as commandments, but as part of an ongoing conversation between past and present, protection and possibility.

The body knows. But the body knows many things."
- Matt Licata

"THERE COMES A POINT WHEN HEALING CAN ACTUALLY KEEP YOU STUCK.You can become so devoted to healing your life that you fo...
10/12/2026

"THERE COMES A POINT WHEN HEALING CAN ACTUALLY KEEP YOU STUCK.

You can become so devoted to healing your life that you forget to live it. So devoted to understanding your wounds, your patterns, your trauma, your nervous system that your wounds remain at the center of your life.

There comes a point when constantly "working on yourself" can become another way of avoiding your life...
Another book,
Another course,
Another modality,
Another rabbit hole,
Another pattern to analyze,
Another layer to excavate.

Healing can become an identity and eventually, even that identity has to be shed.

What if creating, loving, experiencing, contributing, and giving yourself to something larger than you is actually part of what completes the healing process?

Because at some point, all of the energy we've spent turning inward needs somewhere to go - back into life.

Living our purpose is one of the most underestimated forms of healing because it changes the orientation of our lives...
From:
What happened to me?
To:
What wants to be expressed through me?

FROM:
What else do I need to heal?
To:
What am I here to create?

There is a season when you need to be held and there is a season when life asks you to hold something...
A vision,
A body of work,
A community,
A family,
A calling,
A creation.

Something that asks you to become larger than the identity built around your wounds.

This is the shift from consumer to creator...
From constantly consuming healing to creating from what has been healed.

Your pain becomes depth,
Your grief becomes capacity,
Your lived experience becomes embodied wisdom,
Your gifts become contribution.

Living life can pull us out of the endless orbit around ourselves and into participation, relationship, and giving ourselves to something larger...becoming a co-creator WITH life.

There comes a time when healing asks you to stop organizing your entire life around your wounds and start organizing your life around what you're here to share, to experience.

Maybe you don't need another thing to heal, maybe your next Initiation is Purpose."

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10/12/2026

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10/12/2026

"You didn't know how neurons connected, and now you do.

Your brain is unbelievably capable of change and learning because of neuroplasticity.

Here are my favourite ways to maximise it as a neuroscientist:

1. Learn something hard. A language, an instrument, a new skill.

2. Walk and picture your future. Movement and visualisation is an unreal combo.

3. Maximise your sleep. It's when the brain locks in what you learned.

4. Seek new experiences. New routes, new places, new people.

5. Embrace boredom. Your brain needs rest to process what you learn."

- TJ Power, Neuroscientist
Simulated brain visualisation inspired by fefewhitee

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10/12/2026

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Reiki can be an incredible supportive tool for those nearing their end-of-life, as well as their families and caregivers...
10/09/2026

Reiki can be an incredible supportive tool for those nearing their end-of-life, as well as their families and caregivers. If you'd like to know more, contact me. I am most happy to answer any questions you have. 🙏🙌🤍

"Some of us came into this world to help others transform their lives, but first life would ask us to transform our own....
10/09/2026

"Some of us came into this world to help others transform their lives, but first life would ask us to transform our own.

How could we guide someone through the darkness if we had never learned to find our own way through it?

How could we speak of transformation if we had never experienced the death of everything we thought we were?

And so, for some of us, the path was anything but easy.

We walked through profound pain, loss, betrayal, addiction, failure, relationships that shattered us...
Years of questioning everything we thought we knew.

We made mistakes, we lost ourselves, we started over...sometimes more times than we could count.

We didn't know it then, but we were living our own Hero's Journey.....the decent into the Underworld..the confrontation with our shadows..the dismantling of identities..the long, uncomfortable space between who we had been and who we are becoming.

There were parts of us that had to die.....beliefs we could no longer carry..patterns we had to confront.versions of ourselves we had to grieve..and truths we could no longer run from.

Because you cannot guide someone into their own liberation while remaining unwilling to confront the places where you are still imprisoned.

YOU CANNOT TEACH EMBODIMENT THROUGH KNOWLEDGE ALONE. At some point, the work has to become your life.

Your survival becomes an understanding and awareness of the human condition that no textbook, no rabbit hole, no intellectualization could ever give you.

You stop simply KNOWING the work and you become someones who LIVES it.

This is the difference between INFORMATION and INITIATION...

Between TEACHING transformation and having been TRANSFORMED...

Between SPEAKING about the darkness and knowing how to hold someone else's hand while they find their way through it.

The Journey doesn't end when we find our way out of the Underworld.
It ends with the Return.

When we come back carrying something we didn't have when we entered...

WISDOM, COMPASSION, DISCERNMENT & MEDICINE.

And what we survived becomes something we can now place in service to others."

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New Orleans, LA

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Monday 11am - 6pm
Tuesday 11am - 6pm
Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 11am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 12am - 4pm

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+15042023414

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